Just what I needed a project about art that requires me to write, don't get me wrong I love art and all but writing about it is not my thing. As we sat in our English 101 class our professor explained how this project is going to go down. No, one looked excited to start on it at first, but after some time passed everyone got into it. I had no idea who I should do for this English paper, none of the artist really stood out to me. As I sat there in my art class looking through the artist I found Robbie Rowland, works of art. I love his works of art; it’s a new look to the everyday surrounding a new way to think about things.
    Robbie Rowland is an Australian musical producer and visual artist; he has a passion for both the music and art industry. He's has been working as a music producer since 1989 and has worked with Indies labels and major artists, many of witch have achieved national and international recognition. Some of his recent works in the music industry includes " The Morning After Girl ", "Nfa Sixteen Millimetre", " Car Stereo Wars", and " The Fakes".
    Even though, he loves to work with music he has a passion and amazing skills when it comes to visual arts. He participated in an exchange program PRATT Institute in Brooklyn, New York, in 1998. Then later the Certificate of Art and Design Box Hill TAFE, Melbourne, in 1989. Ten years latter he had graduated form the Victorian College of the Arts in 1999, also this is where he did his studies that were based at Pratt Institute in New York, witch also inspired him for his first solo exhibition FOUND.
    Robbie Rowland has taken an interest with segmented sculptures. He has re invented everything from street signs to boats, silos to floorboards. He brings a new twist on art, and a twist to look at it as well. He has a way of defamiliarizing everyday objects bending and shaping then to how he wants to see the world. After all isn't that what being an artist is about, doing work of art the way you see it and how you want it to come out. As Bell Hooks sates," Some people act as though art that is for a mass audience is not good art, and I think this has been a very negative thing. I know that I have wanted very much to write books that are accessible to the widest audience possible." Stating that not every art has to be all pretty, that it should be what you want it to be.
    The best way to describe his art works, is the bending of an object an everyday object that everyone passes by and turn it into a work of art. Such as his floorboard art when he ripped the board and curled it and shaped it to a cross. Many of his art works is like this, ripping it apart and bending it and forming it to his desire.
    He has had a few solo exhibitions his recent one include The Offering, Dandenong, Victoria, in Australia, in 2009. And two in 2010, Project Space, Arc One Gallery, the other in Grace in Ruin, Gisppaland Art Gallery, In Victoria.  And some of his early woks in 1998 in Brooklyn, New York, also 2000, in the Stoke Yard, in Melbourne.
    Some of his recent group exhibitions in 2010 include Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone, Bristol building intervention, Bell Primary Preston, and McClelland Sculpture Survey, McClelland Gallery, Victoria. Others like the Wrong town, House intervention, South Yarra, Melbourne, and Toorak Sculpture Prize, and lastly the SPILL, Arc One Gallery.
    And no grate artist can call them self grate with getting a few award hear and there. Robbie Rowland has been awarded a few such as the Tina Wentcher Prize in 1997, the Julius Kane Memorial Scholarship in 1998. Also the PRATI Institute Exchange Program in 1998, and the Pat Corrigan Artists Grant in 2001. The two recent ones include the Bonanza Award in 2002, and the Australia Council New work Grant in 2005.
    Looking at his works of art really gets me inspired to be more creative in my works of art. I would only draw and that was it, but ever sense I saw his work I have been trying to work on building and creating amazing art works. I just hope that others could see his work and be as inspired and I am right now.




 

    Robbie Rowland works of art is very different from others you would see in a museum or a typical statue. He goes and takes everyday objects and turns them into his artwork. All of his art works came from floorboards or a wall that he ripped and shaped. But as the years went on he got more creative with his work. Such a Turing a silo in to one of his art works and stop sings and other objects you would pass by.
    There is this one work of art witch he took a chair and deformed it, the chair looks like it collapsed in its self and ford this stunning piece of art. I am in love with everything he does and hopes that he can top the work of arts that he has done so far.

By Dylan Fakira